Year 2 of the NLRC - What to Expect

Some upcoming items of note:

• In late summer/early fall 2023, we will be publishing the first resource guide from the Teach-a-LCTL project and work will get underway for the second resource guide.
• The Local LCTL Assessment project (LoLA) has a pilot version of the self-assessment template online, which will be piloted with a variety of groups in the next year.
• We anticipate that the memorandum of understanding (MOU) template and process that the strategic coordination team has been developing.
• Keep any eye out on our social media and in future newsletters for funding opportunities for your own LCTL professional development events!

Meet Us in Person!

The NLRC plans to attend a number of conferences this year. In Fall 2023, come see the NLRC:

Michigan World Language Association (MIWLA) Conference (October 19-20)

• Learn more about the Teach-a-LCTL project at a presentation by Mary Ellen Rutemeyer, Sandhya Shanker, and Mitchell Ernst
• Meet us at our exhibitor table

ACTFL 2023 (November 17-19)

• Learn more about the strategic coordination project at an electronic poster presentation by Felix Kronenberg and Emily Heidrich Uebel
• Try out LCTL DOORs and learn more about the project at a presentation by Danielle Steider and Elena Gorshkova
• Meet us at our exhibitor table with the other Language Resource Centers

NLRC News Highlight: OLT

The Online Language Teaching (OLT) initiative brings together the expertise of NLRC staff and experienced language instructors to offer free, short-term courses on topics critical to the changing landscape of online language instruction. As one participant in the summer 2023 Teaching the Whole Class OLT course said, “This course helped me better understand how to tailor assignments for my students who are at different proficiency levels while still assessing them fairly.” See our Twitter post on Teaching the Whole Class, where we highlight the goals of the course! See directly below for upcoming courses in Fall 2023! 

Are you following our social media/news? Take a look!

• NLRC Facebook Page
• NLRC Twitter
• NLRC Blog

Purposeful Technology Integration

Explore novel and alternative technology-supported pedagogical approaches, identify technology-enabled practices with the most transformative potential, and design an intentional “new normal” for what language instruction might look like for you in the near future.

Fall Dates: September 25 – October 14

Oral Communicative Tasks

Engage in best practices for designing and facilitating synchronous and asynchronous oral communicative tasks for both presentational and interpersonal modes of instruction. Design scaffolded task progressions in order to meet all your language objectives in rigorous fashion. 

Fall Dates: October 23 – November 17